Popla Annual Report

Stroma

I ain't read it yet but here's the link for you guys

http://www.britishparking.co.uk/write/Documents/AOS/POPLA_report_embargoed_until_2pm_4.6.13.pdf

Stroma

What a farcical report, there are so many problems I scarcely know where to begin, but basically they say this

Equality Act - meaningless
Own parking bay - meaningless
HMRC v VCS - meaningless

Suggestion that parking companies charges are legally binding

nigelbb

It's not all bad as the following is a significant reminder to the more uncooperative PPCs that can be used in all appeals.

If representations are made to the operator in respect of the parking charge
notice and are accepted, then the parking charge notice will be cancelled.
If the representations are not accepted the operator must send the rejection
notice to the motorist with the reasons for the rejection. They should also include
an appeal form, as well is the verification code, allowing the motorist to appeal to
POPLA. In the case of online representations, the appeal form can be replaced
by a link to the POPLA website but must always include the verification code.
Operators should not need to be asked for this by the motorist.

Stroma

As I have been reminded of on pepipoo 'should' is not 'must'

The whole thing is a joke though, parking eye almost 700k invoices issued , and about 100 popla appeals received. Yet others who are tiny in comparison have a lot more.

I've criticised popla in the past, and I'm about to again. Only 1 incident of CoP breach in all the time in operation, what an utter joke.

nigelbb

Stroma wrote: »

As I have been reminded of on pepipoo 'should' is not 'must'

It does say that they must always include the verification code.

Stroma wrote: »

The whole thing is a joke though, parking eye almost 700k invoices issued , and about 100 popla appeals received. Yet others who are tiny in comparison have a lot more.

It's not just numbers that should be considered but how many times POPLA rule against the PPC e.g.
Liberty Printers (AR & RF Reddin) Ltd also T/A Liberty Services Ltd and Car Parking Partnership Ltd
Appeals accepted 112 (92%)
Appeals rejected 10 (8%)

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

love this bit

Websites often suggest a motorist put forward complicated and supposedly
‘legal’ reasons for an appeal, which may or may not have much relevance
to the case, when a simple statement of the facts surrounding the vehicle’s
presence or the issue of the parking charge notice may well form valid grounds
of appeal. Experience from elsewhere shows that whilst those seeking to appeal
can obviously get all the help they want from any source, motorists should be
alert to the possibility of having their straightforward case effectively ‘hijacked’ by
campaigners seeking to make their own political points.

and

Sitting in the statutory tribunals as I did for many years, I used to believe few
people really set out deliberately to get a ticket just for the sake of it. Certainly
nobody said that when they came to appeal. Most appellants believed that
the parking ticket should not have been issued in the first place and that they
had a very good reason why they should win their case. Whether this is wholly
the position or not, certainly even whilst POPLA was being set up, we were being
contacted by people who said that they were intending to get lots of tickets
issued to their vehicles so as to “prove” the whole scheme was unworkable. That
is as may be but each case which actually comes to appeal at POPLA will be
carefully considered on its own facts.

photography_2

looking at the Appeals decision graph on page 31 it does look like the Popla appeal decisions has started to favour the PPCs since mid February. I guess they are covering more of the loopholes in the paperwork?

Stroma

• Combined Parking Solutions Ltd t/as Combined Parking Solutions

• Small Operators

PMSL

trisontana

Just looking at one figure from that report - 75% of UKCPS appeals were allowed. This means that Haswell and his minions got it wrong for 75% of the time, Of course, you wouldn't expect anything else from them. How are they going to make a profit otherwise?

Computersaysno

This is my favourite '!!!!!! are they on' moment....

As for diversity, of the current four Assessors, two are women, one is from a BAME background and one identifies as LGBT, i.e. 50%, 25% and 25% respectively.

photography_2

I had to google BAME background and I still don't know what it is lol